Announcement of the departure of professional baseball Yakult Escobar November 16, 14:53
Professional baseball player Yakult has announced that he will not sign a contract for next season with infielder Escobar, who has been in Japan for the first year.
The 33-year-old Escobar is an infielder who mainly defends shorts, made his major league debut in 2008, marked a total of 1367 hits at Brewers and Royals, participated in the All-Star game in 2015, and has excellent defense. We won the Gold Glove Award given to the players.
This season, when he transferred to Yakult, he started in 68 games, the most in the team in short, and 32 games in the third, with a batting average of 20%, 7 minutes and 3 RBIs, one home run, and 30 RBIs.
Yakult announced that he would not sign a contract with Escobar next season, and Masayuki Okumura, the director of the international group, said, "I got it with a short and defensive focus, but foreigners have returned to the point of power and have a new player. I'll look for it. "
Yakult also announced that it has signed a new two-year contract with McGough and a new one-year contract with Suarez, but will not sign a contract with Cook next season.